What is better — to allow feelings to be born, develop and fade naturally, or to try to turn back time and at any cost achieve an emotional shake-up, and with it — a new outbreak of passion?
What is better — to allow feelings to be born, develop and fade naturally, or to try to turn back time and at any cost achieve an emotional shake-up, and with it — a new outbreak of passion? Successful businessman Stepan Melkisarov and his wife Jeanne are experiencing a crisis in their relationship. The son left, there is a lull in business, and a warm mutual feeling slowly mutates into a cozy, almost senile affection. But one morning, Jeanne receives irrefutable proof of her husband’s infidelity … An attentive reader can easily guess that before him is not a real story of adultery, but a game planned by Stepan, designed to restore the former drive in relations with his wife. Alas, soon the fake romantic collision will acquire real tragic details. In his novel, Alexander Arkhangelsky explores the phenomenon of love at all stages of its existence, unexpectedly finding fresh angles in this eternal theme.
AST: Astrel, 415 p.